In case you haven’t noticed, the US is working with governments from Indonesia to the Horn of Africa in an aggressive and coordinated effort to attack Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-inspired movements. Consider the events GlobalPost correspondents reported just this week: In ...Read More
Today GlobalPost begins a special report titled Life, Death and the Taliban. It is a series of stories from the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a multimedia project that includes video, photography, strong reporting and writing and an interactive historical ...Read More
Listen in to the journey I took through Afghanistan and Pakistan on The World starting tonight. A special four-part series of radio reports titled "Inside the Taliban" will be aired over the next four days on The World, which is ...Read More
I know that road just outside of Kabul in the Logar Province. I know the kids who walk to school on it every morning. I know their faces were full of hope and glee when I saw them two years ...Read More
KABUL – Enter the steel gates that lead to the courtyard and well-tended gardens of a faded, but still elegant manse where Nancy Hatch Dupree greets us on the steps. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="Photography by: Seamus Murphy"][/caption] For a moment, you ...Read More
ISLAMABAD – As the Pakistan International Airlines flight touched down here, I noticed that the in-flight screen featured the lush landscape of the Swat Valley with a promotional message: “Pakistan, heaven on earth.” Not exactly. And definitely not these days with a ...Read More
We needed this one. As a country that has too often found itself confronting the futility of its force in the post 9-11 world, the patient, well-executed US Navy mission that freed Captain Richard Phillips came as a welcome ending ...Read More
Teddy Roosevelt would have known what to do with these pirates. In his day he went after them with everything he had. In 1907, there was a famous naval standoff in which Barbary pirates held an American for ransom. It was a ...Read More
As a foreign correspondent, I covered the Holy Land for many years. But then I came back to Boston to the true Promised Land: Fenway Park. And yesterday, opening day for the Red Sox, represents a kind of religious holiday ...Read More
Our correspondent in Kabul, Jean MacKenzie, provided us tonight with some serious GroundTruth. Her exclusive interview with two former officials from the deposed Taliban government offers the kind of insight on the Obama administration's rethinking of Afghanistan and opening the ...Read More
GroundTruth is written by Charles Sennott, the Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost. The blog is a way for GlobalPost to let you know what our correspondents all over the world are covering every day. It is a place where Sennott highlights the best work in the field by a stellar team of correspondents . 